The last segregated hour : the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation / Stephen R. Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Stephen R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Segregation.

Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Church history.

Memphis (Tenn.)--Church history--20th century.

Memphis (Tenn.).

Southern States--Church history--20th century.

Southern States.

United States--Church history--20th century.

United States.

Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.

Segregation.

Black people--Segregation--United States.

Black people.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Contents:

"The start of a new movement across the South": the first kneel-ins, 1960

"Christ did not build any racial walls": church desegregation campaigns, 1961-65

"This spectacle of a church with guarded doors": the Memphis campaign of 1964

"Like a child that had been unfaithful": a church-related college and a college-related church

"A time when the bare souls of men are revealed": Southern Presbyterians respond

"You're going to have to go out there yourself": church people

"Our presence at the church is itself an act of worship": White visitors

"You will only know my motivation when you open the door": Black visitors

"Mama, why don't they just let them in?": children

"The greatest crisis in the 120-year history of our church": defiance, intervention, and schism

"Not the church's advantages, but the city's disadvantages": wrestling with the past at Second Presbyterian Church

"A season of prayer and corporate repentance": wrestling with the past at Independent Presbyterian Church.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195395051

0195395050

OCLC:

773023514